relief1202

Introduction

The tenth meeting of the Research and Experimentation for Local and International First Responders (RELIEF) experiments took place from 29 Feb – 2 March at Camp Roberts in Paso Robles, CA. Over 70 people from 21 organizations in the disaster response community participated in 11 planned experiments.

Because the structure of RELIEF allowed for ad hoc experiments, participants created 5 unplanned experiments that tested the interoperability of their platforms.

Unofficial Site

This site supports the exchange of ideas within the community of thinker that participate in the RELIEF experiments at Camp Roberts. The official government RELIEF site can be found here. This site is not affiliated with the California National Guard, U.S. Navy, or Naval Postgraduate School.

About

Camp Roberts Humanitarian Experiments fosters increased interoperability between humanitarian technologies. It's formal name is RELIEF (Research and Experimentation for Local and International First-Responders). However, because our community convenes at Camp Roberts in the central coast of California, the community of researchers around the activity has made it common use to refer to the experiments by location rather than use of the official acronym. That said, our experimentation has no affiliation with the base beyond being a very, very grateful guest. Camp Roberts is convened through a partnership between the Naval Postgraduate School and the National Defense University's TIDES program (Transformative Innovation for Development and Emergency Support). This research project is coordinated at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) at the National Defense University (NDU), which is part of the Department of Defense.

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Ideas expressed, or products displayed, on the website, or in other TIDES or STAR-TIDES activities, should not be considered as endorsed by anyone else, Including the US government, nor should they be considered any form of commitment. We are still looking at the right license under which to print the material on this site, with the intention of keeping them as close to public domain as is possible.